Category: Poetry

BETH RUSCIO comes from actors, writers and vaudevillians, considers herself all three. She was named one of six Newer Poets of L.A. last year by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, won the Patricia Bibby Scholarship to Idyllwild Summer Poetry in 2006, is published in the “Poetry Goes To The Movies” issue of Speechless with her poem “Strangled Eventually,” along with her essay and tribute to her Dad, “On Acting and the Art of Boxing,” and has read her poems at the Taper Library, the RedCat Theater, Beyond Baroque, the Cobalt Café, Horse of Another Color, and Pacific Resident Theatre..

Reception at 7:00 pm. First twelve poets to sign up will read at Open Mic beginning at 7:30

Hot food and soft drink refreshments for $11 donation

RIVES MANSION  in Downey, CA. 10933 Paramount Blvd (and Third Street)

Valet parking, too.

Please enter by driveway on Paramount. Leave Third Street clear

Third Thursday curated by Lorine Parks    lorineparks@verizon.net

The Downey Arts Coalition presents Thursday Night poetry at The Rives Mansion on March 21, 2013. Featured poet is Patti Scruggs.

      Patricia L. Scruggs is a poet, artist, teacher, mother of two, grandmother of three.  She lives in Southern California, via Alberta, Canada. Her work has been published in CALYX Journal, ONTHEBUS, Spillway, RATTLE, Qarrtsiluni and the anthologies 13 Los Angeles Poets, Deliver Me, and So Luminous the Wildflowers.       

The Rives Mansion is at the corner of 3rd street and Paramount Blvd in Downey.

Third Thursday Poetry series curated by Lorine Parks   lorineparks@verizon.net

Downey Arts Coalition Presents “Third Thursday Poetry” BUT it’s on the FOURTH Thursday, February 28 at Stay Gallery, 11140 Downey Avenue in downtown Downey, just north of Firestone Blvd.

Doors open at 7 pm Open Mike at 7:30 pm.  Poets invited to read a poem or two.

Frank Kearns, our featured poet is launching his new chapbook, “Circling Venice.” His book shows a private life revealed in quick snapshots that mirror adolescent America’s mythic migration westward in the 70’s. His long time West Coast home differs from the places where he began, changed by one simple act of will: “Cars were the way out…I started the car.”

Kearns writes with a laconic Yankee directness of his journey, and in his orbiting perspective he gives us stops in time and stops in places. “Always the woods,” he says of his New England childhood, “hilly, laced with decaying stone walls, glades of sunshine, pockets of cool cool dark.” Once in the Venice of “the people’s parks and food co-ops,” the unexpected courtship of a muse illuminates his poems.

Frank Kearns was raised in New England. He has been transformed into a Southern Californian by time in Venice, years at the Bethlehem Steel mill in Vernon, and a long career in the aerospace industry. He lives and writes in Downey, California.

STAY GALLERY    Free parking  ~   handicap access.  ~  11140 Downey Ave.

Downey reading curated by Lorine Parks.

lorineparks@verizon.net